Artists
Born in Barcelona, he studied Medicine before dedicating his time to music. He studied at the Conservatori Superior de Música in Barcelona and later at the Musik Akademie in Basel. He has specialized in Rossini and Mozart repertoires, having sung Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, La Cenerentola, Il Barbiere di Siviglia or Semiramide. He has also performed oratorio, from Monteverdi to Honnegger, particularly Bach, Händel, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Haydn. Song recitals are a favorite of David Alegret, as they perfectly complement his vocal abilities and personal tastes. He has taken on a wide repertoire with composers as Schubert, Schumann, Beethoven, or Strauss. Due to his roots and his identification with the genre, Catalan song plays a large role in his repertoire, and he performs works by composers such as Toldrà, Mompou, Joan, and Ricard Lamote de Grignon among others.
A musician with a passion for chamber music and art song, she has performed in venues and festivals including the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the Teatro Real, the Seoul Spring Festival of Chamber Music, the Oxford Lieder Festival or the Aix-en-Provence Festival. She has partnered with artists including Wolfgang Holzmair, Tara Erraught, Michael Spyres or Elena Copons, and has performed as soloist with numerous ensembles. Born in Massachusetts, Deirdre earned a Bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College with a double major in Engineering Sciences and Music, and Master's degrees from both the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Konservatorium Wien (MUK). She is currently teaching at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität in Linz and the Joseph Haydn Konservatorium in Eisenstadt. She is co-founder and director of the Boyne Music Festival in Ireland as well as the innovative concert series Mosaïque in Vienna.
Born in Flensburg (Germany,) she was a member of the Ensemble at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, where in 2017, having sung over 20 roles at the theatre, she was awarded the title of Kammersängerin. She has been a frequent guest at the Salzburg Festival and the Wiener Staatsoper. She has also appeared at La Monnaie, the Opéra Bastille, the Royal Opera House and the Teatro alla Scala. Recent role debuts include Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) at the Semperoper Dresden and Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos) at the Edinburgh International Festival. She is a renowned recitalist and her recent appearances include the Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Het Concertgebouw, the Wiener Konzerthaus and concert halls in Madrid, Barcelona, Cologne and Brussels, and at the Munich and Schwarzenberg Festivals. She has also appeared frequently in concerts in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
La soprano terrassenca es forma amb Dolors Aldea i a Viena, on finalitza els estudis cum laude. El 2007 guanya el 2n premi en el Concurs Internacional de Lied de Stuttgart. Com a reconeguda liederista, ha ofert nombrosos recitals a sales com el Musikverein, la Radiokulturhaus, l’Arnold Schoenberg Center i la Bösendorfersaal de Viena, la Liederhalle de Stuttgart, el Palau de la Música Catalana i l'Auditori de Barcelona, el Kingsplace de Londres i el Holywell d'Oxford. Ha cantat també a festivals com el LIFE Victoria Barcelona i la Schubertíada i ha participat en els prestigiosos cicles monogràfics "The Schubert Project" al Regne Unit i "Der Ganze-Hugo-Wolf" a Alemanya. És una cantant versàtil i amb un ampli repertori de concert, que és present amb regularitat, des de fa més d’una dècada, a les temporades del Gran Teatre del Liceu i del Teatro Real, on ha estrenat diverses òperes.
Èlia Farreras-Cabero, born in 1999, studied with Elisenda Cabero at the Escola de Música i Conservatori Professional de Sabadell. She is currently studying at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with Britta Schwarz. She complements her studies with great specialists, including Wolfram Rieger, Martin Bruns, Christoph Prégardien, Thomas Quasthoff, Lluís Vilamajor or Ulrich Messthale. She has performed in such emblematic halls as the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Palau de la Música Catalana, L'Atlantida in Vic or La Farándula in Sabadell.
